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95.<br />
FACES in the audience. Then the MUSIC CRITIC - inscrutable.<br />
FADE TO:<br />
The last few bars and concluding chord of the stormy last<br />
movement. The music has barely finished when there is an<br />
exclamation of delight from someone in the audience. Followed by<br />
others, and loud ‘bravos’<br />
The dazed players stand to acknowledge the rapturous applause.<br />
Their nervous smiles.<br />
MUSIC CRITIC (V.O.)<br />
...and commanded with magisterial ease<br />
all the riches of Mozart’s late style<br />
stop. There followed a searingly<br />
expressive Adagio of consummate beauty<br />
and lyrical power. Stop.<br />
<strong>On</strong> FLORENCE. She smiles across at the others. They’ve made it!<br />
She faces out towards the audience. We follow her gaze...<br />
Toward the middle seat in the third row. 9c. Empty.<br />
<strong>On</strong> FLORENCE again as she struggles with a flood of mixed<br />
emotions.<br />
112 INT. GREEN ROOM BEHIND STAGE. NIGHT.<br />
112<br />
The MUSICIANS are just packing up their stuff and leaving. The<br />
mood is exultant, but FLORENCE is subdued.<br />
JENNY<br />
Are you coming Florence?<br />
FLORENCE<br />
I’ll catch you up.<br />
113 INT. LOBBY OF WIGMORE HALL. NIGHT.<br />
113<br />
Half an hour later.<br />
The lobby is almost deserted. The MUSIC CRITIC is using a<br />
payphone in a corner to phone in his copy.
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